Come Sept. 23 some of alternative music's best drummers will have an album all their own. Hollywood Records will release Flyin' Traps, a 15-track compilation that features 17 drummers including| Stephen Perkins (Porno For Pyros/Jane's Addiction), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden), Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) and Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees).

There hasn't been an album of this kind since Sandy Nelson and Hal Blayne recorded together in the 1950s and '60s, but seeing as he was a big fan of their work, Brian Reitzell of Redd Kross came up with the idea to make an album now. "I had always wanted to hear a record like that for the '90s," Reitzell said. "While I was touring with Red Kross (in 1994), all the other drummers I talked to really liked the idea and wanted to help out," he said.

As Hollywood puts it, Flyin' Traps, ultimately, is not a drum album; it's a music album that just happens to feature many of modern rock's most creative and distinctive drummers exploring the frontiers of rhythmic melody. (AB)
(photo courtesy of Paul Natkin)